Many of us don't think twice about casually popping a stick of gum in our mouth. But chew on this: When you do, you're also ...

Most accounts of the history of chewing gum take us back a couple of millenia to the Mayans of Mesoamerica who tasted the sap of the sapodilla tree and discovered that it did not disintegrate in the ...

The study found that chewing gum could release a surprisingly high amount of microplastics. On average, 100 microplastic ...

In the UK in February, plastic-free gum brand Nuud teamed up with plastic-free pollution company City to Sea to call on the UK government to ban plastic gum and for better labelling. The UK consumes ...

As microplastics receive increased scrutiny, a University of Arkansas assistant professor is researching how they become they ...

T hink you're not eating microplastics? Think again. Researchers at UCLA have uncovered something unsettling: microplastics ...

Plastic, if ingested, can cause one of the most serious cancers. The matter should draw the attention of scientists associated with the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) ...

FOOD we eat can lift our mood and support our mental health. Eating chocolates or our favorite sweets induces the secretion of happy hormones in us. Those hormones include ...

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Department researchers published an article in Nature Medicine in late February ...